About
Amit is a senior London-based Consultant Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatrist, donning different hats such as a mindful transformational leader, writer/poet, multi-award-winning indie film-director and many more. He is guided by a sense of a heightened purpose of service, crossing borders and forming bridges-east and west, mystery and mastery. He is one of the UK's national Well Being Champions and Co- Lead of London Division of Royal College of Psychiatrists. Amit seeks to serve and be an effective agent for building an inclusive community of conscious individuals through self-discovery, growth and celebration. He appreciates the joy of empowering others and comes alive in infinite encounters of shared spaces of mutual learning with humility, compassion and optimism....
Amit is a senior London-based Consultant Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatrist, donning different hats such as a mindful transformational leader, writer/poet, multi-award-winning indie film-director and many more.
He is guided by a sense of a heightened purpose of service, crossing borders and forming bridges-east and west, mystery and mastery. He is one of the UK's national Well Being Champions and Co- Lead of London Division of Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Amit seeks to serve and be an effective agent for building an inclusive community of conscious individuals through self-discovery, growth and celebration. He appreciates the joy of empowering others and comes alive in infinite encounters of shared spaces of mutual learning with humility, compassion and optimism.
Born in Kolkata (India), Amit draws experiences from diverse traditions and interdisciplinary dialogues with experts in diverse fields. His life's work illuminates a broad range of areas -neuropsychiatry and human development, mindful leadership, holistic well-being and resilience, personal mastery, integrative lifestyle medicine and mental health awareness. He believes in cultural diversity and inclusion, scientific research, mind-body-spirit integral work, coaching & mentoring, health humanities, based on his own insights as well as learnings and experiences.
Naturally, his clinical work, teaching and leadership practice is an interesting amalgamation of diverse and integrative aspects, modern neuroscience, emotional intelligence, arts and spiritual wisdom, including designing healing spaces personal and collective well-being and transformative journeys of teams and individuals'.
Medicine
His medical career spans 25 years of working in NHS in the UK but he pursued lifelong learning, teaching and leading, looking through multicultural and multidimensional lenses and lived experiences with patients and life's challenges...
His medical career spans 25 years of working in NHS in the UK but he pursued lifelong learning, teaching and leading, looking through multicultural and multidimensional lenses and lived experiences with patients and life's challenges.
Amit is employed as the Lead Clinician and Consultant in a Specialist Inpatient Adolescent Unit in North London; he is also the Medical CAMHS Lead in Barnet and Crisis Pathway Lead of the division. His team has been awarded the Best team of the year 2021.
He was an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Queen Mary University of London and has been extensively involved in teaching and training, including from Cambridge, Oxford and UCL University. He also trains and supervises trainees from other professional disciplines,.
He was also involved in various Research including Cognitive Psychopharmacology and National Morbidity Survey at the Prestigious Institute of Psychiatry , The Maudsley AT KINGS College London
Recognition
He has been conferred the prestigious fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) as a mark of distinction and recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of psychiatry...
He has been conferred the prestigious fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) as a mark of distinction and recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of psychiatry.
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Amit received several awards in his career, notably London Mayor's award for Leadership (King's fund Millennium Commission), Blaker Fund award (Scientific & Medical Network) Spirituality SIG (RCPsych 2022) Essay Prize, Mental Health Star award (finalist) for creativity and innovation in mental health
Leadership
He was intimately involved in strategic and operational management, policy development and in CAMHS Transformation Projects with particular focus on the development of Home Treatment team, Day Hospital, and other Crisis Pathway Services...
He was intimately involved in strategic and operational management, policy development and in CAMHS Transformation Projects with particular focus on the development of Home Treatment team, Day Hospital, and other Crisis Pathway Services.
He has also tirelessly worked towards an inclusive workforce, contributing to the Equality, Diversity and Human Rights principles. He has also served as Board member in several international organisations and charities, including Scientific & Medical Network(scimednet.org), Child in Need Institute-UK and he is a professional affiliate of Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) creating interdisciplinary dialogues beyond materialistic and reductionist paradigms.
Speaker
He has been conferred the prestigious fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) as a mark of distinction and recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of psychiatry...
He has been conferred the prestigious fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) as a mark of distinction and recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of psychiatry....
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Amit received several awards in his career, notably London Mayor's award for Leadership (King's fund Millennium Commission), Blaker Fund award (Scientific & Medical Network) Spirituality SIG (RCPsych 2022) Essay Prize, Mental Health Star award (finalist) for creativity and innovation in mental health
Knowledge Seeker
He was intimately involved in strategic and operational management, policy development and in CAMHS Transformation Projects with particular focus on the development of Home Treatment team, Day Hospital, and other Crisis Pathway Services...
He was intimately involved in strategic and operational management, policy development and in CAMHS Transformation Projects with particular focus on the development of Home Treatment team, Day Hospital, and other Crisis Pathway Services.
He has also tirelessly worked towards an inclusive workforce, contributing to the Equality, Diversity and Human Rights principles. He has also served as Board member in several international organisations and charities, including Scientific & Medical Network(scimednet.org), Child in Need Institute-UK and he is a professional affiliate of Galileo Commission (www.galileocommission.org) creating interdisciplinary dialogues beyond materialistic and reductionist paradigms.
Creative Wizard
He has been conferred the prestigious fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) as a mark of distinction and recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of psychiatry...
He has been conferred the prestigious fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych) as a mark of distinction and recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field of psychiatry....
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Amit received several awards in his career, notably London Mayor's award for Leadership (King's fund Millennium Commission), Blaker Fund award (Scientific & Medical Network) Spirituality SIG (RCPsych 2022) Essay Prize, Mental Health Star award (finalist) for creativity and innovation in mental health
